The Amichai settlement, in the northern West Bank , will house some 300 settlers evicted in February from the Amona outpost after Israel's Supreme Court ruled their homes had been built illegally on privately-owned Palestinian land. Kushner, a 36-year-old real estate developer with little experience of worldwide diplomacy and peace negotiations, arrived in Israel early on Wednesday and will spend barely 20 hours on the ground - he departs shortly after midnight.

Gunmen stormed a school after a "failed attempt" to attack a militia outpost in Barangay Malagakit at dawn on Wednesday, the military and police said. A militiaman, a local farmer and six BIFF rebels were killed in the hours-long fighting, which saw the rebels seizing 31 residents from the two villages as human shields, according to Lieutenant Colonel Angelo Lutera, commander of an army battalion involved in the operations.

Sekulow also spoke to Jake Tapper on CNN's " State of the Union " and Chris Wallace on " Fox News Sunday". But Trump has also said he had made a decision to fire Comey before Rosenstein wrote a memo recommended him. But two avenues appear clear so far: The lawyers are prepared to paint Mueller's investigative team as somehow politically motivated, or too aligned with the interests of fired FBI Director James Comey; and they will argue the president didn't illegally exert pressure on the ...

He has questioned why investigators do not dig into links between the Democrats and the Russian government, including his election opponent Hillary Clinton. The FBI and Congress are both looking at whether Trump campaign officials colluded with the alleged Kremlin plot. Rosenstein took over the Russian Federation probe soon after Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself .

Bagpipes blared after the service as Warmbier's casket was carried out of the building toward a waiting hearse, followed by a long line of mourners. In a statement announcing his death, Warmbier's family described him as "a warm, engaging, brilliant young man whose curiosity and enthusiasm for life knew no bounds".

The Opposition parties are meeting on June 22 to decide on fielding a consensus candidate for the presidential election. "BJP chief Amit Shah had a word with me and we have accepted his request and chose to support Ram Nath Kovind", he added.

He added that removing nuclear weapons from South Korea alone would not be enough because the U.S. has deployed weapons in other strategic locations in the region from where it can launch attacks on the North. He suggested that one of the key demands is the halt of the U.S. joint military drills with South Korea, which Pyongyang denounced as a rehearsal for invasion.

The two leaders had a high-profile summit in Florida in April and Trump has frequently praised Xi while resisting criticizing Chinese trade practices. It had long pushed for a resumption of US negotiations with North Korea, which now appears a remote prospect. In a sign that U.S. United States officials have known that the site is ready to conduct an underground test for some time.

Shortly after leaving office, Kohl's reputation was tarnished by a financing scandal in his center-right CDU, now led by Chancellor Merkel. President Donald Trump said Kohl was "a friend and ally to the United States as he led the Federal Republic of Germany through 16 pivotal years".

The man had been known to the police, but not for terrorism-related activity. "The preliminary results of the search carried out in the residence of the suspect O.Z.in Sint-Jans-Molenbeek, showed that he probably made the bomb there", Van Der Sypt said in a statement.

Warmbier can open his eyes and blink but has no signs of understanding language or responding to commands, Kanter said . Warmbier's father last week praised the Trump administration for bringing his son home and criticized the Obama administration's approach, saying the family heeded the United States government's initial advice to take a low profile "without result".

His parents said that he has been in the coma for over a year. Warmbier was a University of Virginia student when he chose to go to North Korea with a tour group. But deplaning in North Korea wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with PotCoin.com made it clear that his earlier "basketball diplomacy" ventures with North Korea have now morphed into what some internet wags described as "weed diplomacy".